Kaja Kallas

Kaja Kallas     ( politician)
Born	18 June 1977  Tallinn,  Estonia
Nationality	Estonian
Alma mater	•  University of Tartu •  Estonian Business School
Parents	Siim Kallas
Member of	European Council on Foreign Relations, Friends of Europe/Young European Leaders/2017, Open Society Foundations/Reliable allies
Relatives	Eduard Alver
Estonian politician categorized as a "reliable ally" by the Open Society Foundations. Having furthered her career by Russophobic statements and support for the MIC, she was mooted as a possible Secretary-General of NATO, but instead was selected in 2024 - after her Bilderberg attendance - to become EU responsible for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.  Vice-President of the European Commission  In office 1 December 2024 - Present  High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy In office 1 December 2024 - Present  Prime Minister of Estonia In office 26 January 2021 - 23 July 2024 Preceded by Jüri Ratas  Member of the European Parliament for Estonia In office 1 July 2014 - 5 September 2018 Preceded by Vytautas Landsbergis, Nikki Sinclaire, Philippe de VilliersDaniel Cohn-Bendit, Miguel Ángel Martínez

Kaja Kallas is an Estonian politician who was Prime Minister.. She is the daughter of Siim Kallas, who did well both during Soviet rule and afterwards, where he "lost" $10 million as Central Bank President. She is a member of George Soros' European Council on Foreign Relations, and was categorized as a "reliable ally" by the Open Society Foundations when she sat in the European Parliament. Having furthered her career by Russophobic statements, she was mooted as a possible Secretary-General of NATO, but instead was selected in 2024 - after her Bilderberg attendance - to become Vice-President of the European Commission.

Family background

Kallas's great-grandfather was Eduard Alver, Commander of the Estonian Defence League (Kaitseliit) during the Estonian War of Independence, and the first chief of the Estonian Police from 1918 to 24 May 1919. In 1949, her mother Kristi, six months old at the time, was deported to Siberia with her mother and grandmother and lived there until she was ten years old.

Kaja's father, Siim Kallas, made a Communist party career in the Soviet Union. He made a career in the Ministry of Finance of the Estonian Soviet Republic. In 1979, at the age of just 31, he was already a director of the board of the state bank Sberbank of Estonia. In the Soviet administrative hierarchy, this corresponded to the position of a deputy minister, and was associated with a high social status and access to "exotic" goods, which were mostly denied to ordinary citizens. He became deputy editor of the Estonian party newspaper Rahva Hääl ("Voice of the People") in 1986 and chairman of the trade union organizations of Soviet Estonia in 1989.

In 1991, after independence, Siim Kallas was appointed the President of the Bank of Estonia.

Using gold as collateral, in 1993 the Bank of Estonia secretly arranged the transfer via a third party of US$10m to a Swiss bank. It was part of a contract in which the bank was supposed to receive highly improbable dividends from oil trading. The money disappeared.

Kallas entered politics in 1994 as one of the founders of liberal Estonian Reform Party. The 1995 elections were successful for the new party. Kallas became minister of foreign affairs from 1995 to 1996. He later was minister of finance from 1999 to 2002 and Prime Minister from 2002 to 2003. He was european Commissioner between 204 and 2014.

Kaja Kallas was born in Tallinn on 18 June 1977.

Education

From 1995 to 1999, Kaja Kallas studied law at the University of Tartu and was admitted to the Estonian Bar in 1999.

Career

From 2003, at the age of 26 and while her father was Estonian Prime Minister and then EU Commissioner, she became a member of the boards of directors and supervisory boards of numerous Estonian companies dealing with renewable energy.

In 2010, Kaja joined her father's Estonian Reform Party and was elected to the Estonian Parliament in 2011. In 2014, she was elected to the EU Parliament. In 2018, she became the leader of party, went back to Estonia and won the elections in early 2019. In 2021, she became Prime Minister of Estonia.<ref.https://www.euronews.com/2021/01/24/estonia-politics-kaja-kallas-to-become-baltic-nation-s-first-female-prime-minister</ref>

She was selected a Young European Leader by the lobby group Friends of Europe in 2017, and was categorized as a "reliable ally" by the Open Society Foundations when she sat in the European Parliament.

Having furthered her career by Russophobic statements, she was mooted as a possible Secretary-General of NATO, but instead was selected in 2024 to become Vice-President of the European Commission.

Political positions

As the Prime Minister of Estonia, she effectively eliminated Russian as a medium of instruction for the Russian-speaking minority,, the forced assimilation of this population, and the destruction of Soviet-era monuments.

In 2024, Estonia made military training mandatory in all secondary schools.

In June 2024, just before becoming EU Foreign Policy Chief, Kallas advocated for a tougher stance against Russia, defining victory in Ukraine as breaking Russia into smaller states and supported "pushing Russia back", maintaining sanctions, and integrating Ukraine into the EU and NATO.

She called for sharply increased spending on weapons and "defense".

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2024	30 May 2024	2 June 2024	Spain Madrid	The 70th Bilderberg Meeting
Munich Security Conference/2022	18 February 2022	20 February 2022	Germany Munich Bavaria	Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here
Munich Security Conference/2023	17 February 2023	19 February 2023	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere.
Munich Security Conference/2024	16 February 2024	18 February 2024	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects

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